Archive for the 'the homefront' Category

Because My Ancestors Did It

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

The last two years have had some significant changes to my diet and lifestyle. I quit smoking in August of 2010, and started eating meat for first time in twenty years in December of that year. For the first time in over a decade, I could actually smell and taste my food without the cigarette [...]

The New Great Pacific

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

For a million and one reasons, The Mister and I packed up all of our belongings, bid farewell to New York City, and moved into this shotgun house in the most magical and amazing city in the world, New Orleans. Our last home was decorated in what we liked to think of as a “Martha [...]

Princess Chicken

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Blood Bath

Monday, March 29th, 2010

I’ve been spending a lot of time looking around my cavernous and cluttered apartment fantasizing about all the nifty things I should do with it.  Today, I dream of bathrooms.  Oddly enough, my bathtub actually lives in my hallway, and not actually in a room of its very own, but that’s a minor detail. Blood [...]

Tiny Victories

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

A few days ago, I decided it was time to learn to knit.  I picked up a copy of Stitch ‘N Bitch : The Knitter’s Handbook, walked over to the Garment District, and bought a set of needles & a few different colors of yarn. The last three days, in between bottles of wine and [...]